Dear 19 year old Amanda,

Something needs to be done to that music you listen to - because honestly, its horrible. Your super huge hair is cool now and you'll miss it but it will slowly die out and you'll be extremely thankful that it did. Also your racoon eyes? Not so cute. Little grandma is right when she says you need to tone it down a notch with the make up. You should do that earlier but nope, your defiant personality will fight to save your eyeliner habits until you're about 21. 

You'll spend the next year focused on school and work and finally being able to get things that make you feel happy. You will move around a lot and hate that you keep doing so because your things ALWAYS go missing. 

Amanda, you'll spend a year wondering why your best friend hurt you like she did and why she had to stop talking to you and pretending you never existed, for absolutely no reason. You'll also learn from this, that people are never who you think they are. The experience of losing your best friend will make you bitter for a while but it will also remind you that you don't need somebody for a crutch and you can get through problems by yourself. 

You will regret all the mean things you said to your mother once you realize just how hard she works to take care of you and your autistic brother. Though you will forever have bitter feelings about the past you will come to terms with it and understand your mother did what she had to for the right reasons. You'll realize that her love for her children is bigger than the earth itself, hell, it's bigger than the whole universe. 

When you're 19 you will fall in love. You will reflect on how the other people you thought you loved doesn't compare to this love you've found now. You will fall in love so hard that the thought of not having that person there is earth shattering and bone wrenching. You will learn what it means to start building a life with somebody when you're 19. 

You'll watch your friends all start to have families and children. You think the person your with now will be the person you one day settle down with and have a baby with. Then you'll realize a baby is not the life you want. You will realize you have a passion for science even though you spent the last 8 years wishing death upon the logical practices of all things science. You will remember why you wanted to be a doctor as a little girl and it will become the most painful but most rewarding dream you have.

You will have a lot of fun being 19. Your love of alcohol will slow down because you're 19 now and struggle isn't quite as fun as it was before. You will start to work - a lot. Your first job will have 12 hour shifts, 5 days a week and you will be exhausted. All the time. You won't have time for friends. You won't have time for anybody but your boyfriend. You will realize you work far too much and spend your days on a phone talking to people who have very low respect for you and don't care about anything but cable tv. You will spend the days wondering why people have it so much easier than you do. Wondering why you had to deal with the things you did and why it had to happen to you. Then you'll grow up near the end of your 19th year and realize life isn't so bad. 

Learn to take time for the things you love instead of worrying about your damn boyfriend so much. Seriously. Most good things come to an end, he's one of them. TAKE TIME TO FOCUS ON YOURSELF and seriously wear more feminine clothes. You don't need to look like a 16 year old emo boy anymore. 

Don't fight with your grandma, she's crazy but she loves you. Again, same goes for your mother. 

Don't worry about feeling down. Don't feel like a failure because something doesn't go according to plan. Don't worry when your heart feels broken and your outside screaming on the street at 2 AM. Don't worry when somebody tells you they don't love you anymore. Don't worry when things fall apart. The struggle is all part of the journey. A journey that never ends. And you'll be so thankful for all of these challenging and eye opening experiences, even though your heart broke at one point. Remember that relying on him to fix your broken heart may have seemed like a good idea, but it isn't. Learn to love yourself. Truly love yourself, and stop hating your body. 

Even though you thought you had the whole world figured out by this age, you know nothing. I'm 23 and writing this to you and I still don't know much but there is one thing I do know; you are stronger than you think. You can get through everything that is thrown at you this year. You will need these struggles to be stronger in the end. If you knew what I know now you would do things differently but it wouldn't shape you into the same woman you are today. So be thankful for everything you're going through. It'll make you awesome.

I guess I should thank you for the sleepless nights and falling in love. It got me to where I am today. It sure as hell isn't where I want to be but it isn't where I used to be. 

Thanks,

WATCH_DOGS – Achievement Guides 

Hello World - Take Down Maurice  - This achievement is story related and as long as you play the story it can not be missed

Basest Base – Complete every gang hideout - You will notice these little icons show up that are blue and appear to have a fist in them. Simply drive to the locations of all 15 of these and complete the gang hideouts by clearing out the place and knocking down the target. I will add that sometimes you need to complete them or drive around for a bit before the other ones will unlock so if you notice you don’t have 15 on your map right away, don’t panic!

End of Line – Complete 40 fixer contracts - I’m going to start off by saying these can be a little time consuming. Basically you will search for an icon on your map that is light blue with a steering wheel within it. There are a few types of different fixer contracts. Some you will need to drive to designated locations to drop off vehicles, escape enemies or the cops and there are a few more types of fixer contracts. Simply complete 40 of them and the achievement is yours. 

Peephole – Complete every Privacy Invasion

- This achievement is taking to next level of creepy. All you have to do is locate the eye icon on your map. Once you get there you will have to run around until you find the boxes you will need to unlock and then run back to the original box. If you’ve unlocked all the needed boxes you will then be able to intrude. You have to complete all 30 of these to unlock the achievement. You must also unlock the CTOS towers in order to unlock where some of these are on the map.

Enforcer – Use the Crime Detection system to take down 20 known criminals 

- This achievement is pretty simple to get. You will notice as you are roaming around you will get a notification on the right side of your screen saying there is criminal activity. You will then have a blue triangle that is pointing downwards show up on your map. Drive to those locations 20 times and take out the criminals and this achievement is yours.

Hard Crash – Perform 10 Vehicle Take Downs - This will more than likely come as your progress throughout the story line. Basically destroy 10 vehicles of either enemies or police and this achievement is yours.

Communication Fail – Using non-lethal take downs stop 10 civilians from calling to report you 

- As you are on both missions as well as roaming around in your world there are some things you will probably do that the community doesn’t approve of. You will notice a red triangle pop up and you will be able to hear what the civilian is saying to the police. Chase down the civilian calling on you press B to take their phone away.  Do this 10 times for the achievement to pop.

Bookmarked – Tag 100 Enemies - This will come as you progress through the story naturally but if you choose not to play the story you can also get this from doing the gang hideouts. When you’re around enemies use the cameras that are around you to look at the enemies. Once you notice a red icon appears on them (different icons, some are starts, signals etc.) you have tagged the enemy. Do this to 100 different enemies and its yours.

  Power Cycle – Participate in 5 different city games - In order to complete this achievement you have to win at 5 different City games. The city games are:  1. Slot Machines 2. Poker 3. Drinking game  4. Shell game  5. Chess

Magic Smoke – Kill 4 enemies with a single instance of Focus - Once you unlock more skills in your skill tree you will  be able to have focus for longer periods of time. Just activate your focus and try to perform 4 headshots on 4 different enemies and its yours!

Free Radical – Escape a Level 5 police chase - The easiest way to do this is to just cause havoc in the streets. Shoot civilians or cops until you have all 5 squares on the bottom right hand corner turned red, get in a car and drive around until you lose them. If you do go into a parking garage for this you will need to switch vehicles and then hide in the vehicle in order for them not to find you. 

Scan Proof – Escape a level 5 Police Scan - This really isn’t as difficult as it sounds. Just make sure that you have your jam coms stocked with extra materials to craft more while you drive around to avoid the heat. Once you are a far enough distance out and you notice on the bottom right corner the bar says 0% it wont be long before this achievement pops for you.

White Rabbit Object – Escape 15 Police Scans

- Again pretty simple, these don’t need to be high level police scans or anything. Just make a bunch of jam coms while doing this incase you get stuck within the yellow circle and press RB to activate your jam com. After successfully escaping 15 times the achievement will pop.

Hardware Fail – Shoot out a tire on 15 different vehicles - Really easy achievement! Just run around and shoot 15 different tires on vehicles. These vehicles do not have to be moving they can be parked. I will say I had to shoot more than 15 tires but I just kept running around until it popped.

Black Hat Trick – Kill 3 Enemies with a single IED - This one can be a little bit tricky because sometimes it’s hard to get 3 enemies within the same vicinity. Once you notice 3 enemies within the same area go for it. Make sure none of the enemies are enforcers as they usually take 2 IED’s to go down. Also make sure you don’t IED a car as that will count as a car explosion that they were killed from, not the IED.

Saturday Night Special – Complete the final mission of the Weapons Trade - This last mission will show up after you’ve already scanned 9 of the weapons trade crates. These missions show up as a reticle on your map that looks sort of like crosshairs however the last mission will show up as a light blue icon much like the icons for the fixer contracts and gang hideouts. This mission can be challenging, as there are a few enforcers. I would suggest blowing up the cars using IED’s when they roll in and using blacks outs so you can move without anybody noticing you.

  Sanity Check – Collect all 8 burner phones

- Really simple again, just find the location of the icons that look like they have 3 squiggly lines grouped together. Once you find all 8 the achievement will be yours. You do have to progress quite a way through act 2 before they all show up on your map

Read Only – Complete the final mission in the QR code investigation - Once you scan all 17 QR codes around the city you will be given an extra little mission to complete upon the completion of the 17th scan. Complete it and this is yours.

Geolocated – Check in at every Hotspot - You will see these all over your map. They will show up as check mark icons that are white unless you have already checked in then the check marks will be greyed out. Simply go to the location and check in. Do this at all 100 locations and you will have this achievement.

Hackification – Invade and successfully hack 10 online enemy fixers - Select the online hacking from the online sub category. You will need to profile the target and then start hacking his data. This is one of the more challenging online modes because it takes quite a while to hack all of the data. Once you have profiled them and hacked them you have 1 minute to initiate the hack so run as far away as you can from there location. If there is a section where you can climb so you’re high above them I would suggest doing that. As you get closer to hacking all of their data the radius you need to stay in will get smaller so try and choose a pretty nifty hiding spot.

Piggyback – Invade and successfully observe 10 enemy fixers in online tailing

- This is really easy. Most players that you are tailing aren’t even aware you are tailing them unless they try to complete a mission or a side mission. If they try to start a mission they will get a message that they can’t right now because they are being invaded. Once that happens they you will need to watch and make sure they don’t get to close to you so that they are not able to profile you. Like I said quite often players are not aware that you are tailing them so you can get in and get out pretty successfully. 

Stealth Cookie – Complete an online tailing without being detected - Like I said a large majority of people are not even aware that you are tailing them. Once you get to 100% of observing them without being profiled this achievement will unlock.

Superhighway – Compete 10 online Public Races - Another simple one. You don’t even have to win the online races, just make sure you finish them.

System Mangler – Complete every ctOS breach - These are simple for the most part but can sometimes get a little bit aggravating for a couple of them. Sometimes in order to hack the boxes you will need to hack into a certain camera and be in a specific location. I would recommend if there are any boxes you can unlock to do so before starting the ctOS breach, just to make life easier on yourself.

Revoking Client Privileges  - Complete the final mission in the Human Traffic investigation 

- In order to do this you will need to go to the icon that looks like a little person. Once you hack into their phone you will receive a location of a briefcase on your map. Once you have completed all of the briefcase locations you will be given the final mission. Upon completion this will unlock.

Darkness Looms – Complete the final mission in the Missing Persons - Once you scan all of the bodies you will be given yet again another location you need to go to for theses series of missions. Once you complete this final mission the achievement will pop.

They Call Him the Vigilante – Complete Every Investigation - To unlock this achievement you need to complete the Weapons Trade, Human Trafficking, all of the QR codes, Missing Persons, Burner Phones. Once you complete all missions for the investigations this achievement unlocks.

Road Rage – Complete every Criminal Convoy - To successfully gain this achievement you have to complete 18 criminal convoys. You will notice they show up as a blue icon on your map. You will be notified whether or not you can kill the target. If it says knock down you must take the target down in a non lethal way (pressing b on your controller when you are close enough) If it says take down, go ahead and kill him before he reaches the location. Some of the criminal convoy locations won’t show up right away. You may need to hack some people to find out the locations and sometimes you will be prompted they are available as you’re driving around.

Freeware – Unlock Every Skill in the Skills Tree - These of course become unlocked through natural progression in the game and throughout completing missions. You will need to be level 50 before you have enough skill points to unlock all of the missions. There are a couple of other requirements you will need to complete in order to have access to certain skills but they requirements will be listed when you try selecting that skill.

  Disk Space Full – Unlock every song with the SongSneak app - In order to gain access to all of the songs there are a few things you will have to do in order to collect them. There are 3 songs that can only be unlocked through missions and 3 songs you need to hack from civilians. You can hack more than 3 songs from civilians however. If you go into a club or to a kiosk on the street sometimes they will have music playing. You can bring up the song sneak app and if give it a listen, if you don’t already have the song you will unlock it by doing that as well.

Clear Signals – Unlock every ctOS tower - In order to do this you need find the exact location on your map. This will be a red icon. Once you are at the location you will need to unlock a series of boxes before being able to proceed. Once you are done unlocking the boxes you will be able to go through the gated doors and walk right up to the ctOS box and hack into it.  There are 13 ctOS boxes in total that you must unlock.

  SECRET ACHIEVEMENTS -  If you do not want to know these, don't read! Family Man – Complete Act 1 - As long as you play the story this can not be missed  Who Is Raymond Kenney? – Complete Act 2 - As long as you play the story this can not be missed One Down, One to Go – Complete Act 3

- As long as you play the story this can not be missed Vengeance – Complete Act 4 - As long as you play the story this can not be missed Log Off – Complete Act 5 - As long as you play the story this can not be missed Traced – Get tailed 5 times - This will more than likely happen without you even noticing as the majority of the time you are tailed you are unaware unless you start a mission.

WATCH_DOGS

    June 10, 2014

Watch_Dogs is set in a time where you can play with the mind of a modern day man with extraordinary obligations. Set in Chicago the city remains modern with extremely high security measures. You play as Aiden Pearce. Pearce, a former hacker who has been sent down an ugly path due to a violent history that seems to repeatedly cause tragedies in the personal lives of Aiden and everybody around him. Lucky for you, Aiden Pearce is not a man who stands for any shenanigans and knows how to put a stop to anything he isn’t finding enjoyable. I won’t get too into detail on the story line because of course for those yet to play, I will not be the one to completely spoil it for you. I will go ahead and say the city being on a hyper-security system gives the player an advantage and many opportunities to use your technological environment in whatever way you choose. There is an extensive amount of ways and a large variety of things you can do within the environment such as hacking peoples bank accounts, taking out your local thugs causing trouble and tailing people through the cities security cameras. There a different types of online modes to play as well ranging from car racing, hacking players to tailing them and watching them squirm while trying to figure out who’s stealing their data. The game manages to stay intriguing enough that you want to know what is going to happen next while still giving you an open world to explore with a large amount of side missions and collectibles to take part in, if that’s what you prefer. Watch_Dogs takes its players to a whole different level while still keeping the game relevant in a world similar to our own. If aimlessly hacking people, intense car chases, a usable environment that never stops giving and a plot that gets a little bit twisty is something that you may be interested in, then Watch_Dogs definitely won’t disappoint.